Effect of adhesive application method on repair bond strength of composite by Hee Kyeong Oh, Dong Hoon Shin

“…ObjectivesThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of the application method of universal adhesives on the shear bond strength (SBS) of repaired composites, applied with different thicknesses.Materials and MethodsThe 84 specimens (Filtek Z350 XT) were prepared, stored in distilled water for a week and thermocycled (5,000 cycles, 5°C to 55°C). …”
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Encrypted traffic classification method based on convolutional neural network by Rongna XIE, Zhuhong MA, Zongyu LI, Ye TIAN

“…Aiming at the problems of low accuracy, weak generality, and easy privacy violation of traditional encrypted network traffic classification methods, an encrypted traffic classification method based on convolutional neural network was proposed, which avoided relying on original traffic data and prevented overfitting of specific byte structure of the application.According to the data packet size and arrival time information of network traffic, a method to convert the original traffic into a two-dimensional picture was designed.Each cell in the histogram represented the number of packets with corresponding size that arrive at the corresponding time interval, avoiding reliance on packet payloads and privacy violations.The LeNet-5 convolutional neural network model was optimized to improve the classification accuracy.The inception module was embedded for multi-dimensional feature extraction and feature fusion.And the 1*1 convolution was used to control the feature dimension of the output.Besides, the average pooling layer and the convolutional layer were used to replace the fully connected layer to increase the calculation speed and avoid overfitting.The sliding window method was used in the object detection task, and each network unidirectional flow was divided into equal-sized blocks, ensuring that the blocks in the training set and the blocks in the test set in a single session do not overlap and expanding the dataset samples.The classification experiment results on the ISCX dataset show that for the application traffic classification task, the average accuracy rate reaches more than 95%.The comparative experimental results show that the traditional classification method has a significant decrease in accuracy or even fails when the types of training set and test set are different.However, the accuracy rate of the proposed method still reaches 89.2%, which proves that the method is universally suitable for encrypted traffic and non-encrypted traffic.All experiments are based on imbalanced datasets, and the experimental results may be further improved if balanced processing is performed.…”
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Management of Infected Gap Nonunion of Shaft of Femur by Ilizarov Method by Rooshad Ahmad Muhammad, Omer Ali Rafiq Barawi

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of treating infected nonunion of femoral shaft by using Ilizarov method. Methods: in this prospective case series study, 13 patients with infected gap nonunion of femoral shaft were treated surgically with meticulous debridement and bone transport through application of Ilizarov ring fixator. …”
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SOYA LECITHINS QUALITY CONTROL USING THE NMR PULSE METHOD by E. V. Lisovaya, M. R. Zhane, O. S. Agafonov, E. P. Victorova

“…It has been shown that for the development of a method for determining the AN of liquid soya lecithins, it is necessary to carry out special sample preparation of the sample taking into account the parameters specified for soya lecithins, namely, the ratio of the system «soya lecithin - carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) - NaOH solution» should be equal to 1.0: 3.0: 0.6 ( by weight), and the duration of active contacting of the specified system should be at least 1.5 minutes The indicated sample preparation of samples of liquid soya lecithins will allow obtaining accurate and reproducible results of measuring the amplitude of NMR signals of soap protons, which is an analytical parameter characterizing the content of lipids exhibiting acidic properties in lecithin. …”
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Efficient diagnosis of diabetes mellitus using an improved ensemble method by Blessing Oluwatobi Olorunfemi, Adewale Opeoluwa Ogunde, Ahmad Almogren, Abidemi Emmanuel Adeniyi, Sunday Adeola Ajagbe, Salil Bharany, Ayman Altameem, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Asif Mehmood, Habib Hamam

“…The second phase employed the same algorithms alongside sequential ensemble methods—XG Boost, AdaBoostM1, and Gradient Boosting—using an average voting algorithm for binary classification. …”
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Telemedicine in Nerve Surgery: An Effective Method to Determine Indications for Surgery by Noah S. Llaneras, BS, Ruby L. Taylor, MD, Jonah P.M. Orr, MD, Rachel Alessio, BS, Carolyn Carper, BS, Brendan M. Patterson, MD, Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

“…Our findings suggest that telemedicine and in-office visits are equally effective in establishing a surgical plan, suggesting that the expansion of telemedicine could be considered for a broader geographic patient base.…”
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MATERIALS USED IN THE ROAD BASES: METHOD OF THE RESIDUAL DEFORMATIONS’ CALCULATION by A. S. Aleksandrov, T. V. Semenova, N. P. Aleksandrova

“…Materials and methods. The authors performed the analysis of the models for calculating residual deformations accumulated by granular materials and under the influence of repeated loads. …”
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Optimization of Pretreatment Method for Tl Isotope Analysis of Geological Samples by Jinjie QI, Hongxia YU, Qinghong XU, Yonghai YUAN, Feng YANG, Huiping ZHANG

“…The thallium (Tl) isotope system can be utilized to track various geological processes, but the current sample digestion and ion exchange methods used for Tl isotope analysis take a long time. …”
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A Synergistic CNN-DF Method for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment by Jiangang Lu, Yi He, Lifeng Zhang, Qing Zhang, Jiapeng Tang, Tianbao Huo, Yunhao Zhang

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Comparison of the Demonstration-Observation-Assistance-Performance Method and the Traditional Teaching Method for Endotracheal Intubation Skill Acquisition on a Simulator in Medica... by Seni Potsangbam, Jonan Puni Kay, Md Nushrat

“…Conclusion: The DOAP and TT methods were equally effective for ETI skill acquisition and retention. …”
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Integrated operation control technology of MMC high and low voltage ride-through under weak grid by Wenzhong MA, Muzi SUN, Yusheng WANG, Wenyan ZHANG, Hengshuo LI, Yaheng ZHU

“…Secondly，a capacitance voltage equalization control method based on the power redistribution for MMC under weak grid is proposed，and the active power redistribution of the submodule is realized by controlling the DC component of the bridge arm current. …”
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A Design Approach for SoC Integration With Voltage Restoration Capability for Redundancy-Based DC Microgrids by Thales Augusto Fagundes, Raphael Sauer de Castro, Marcio Von Rondow Campos, Bruno Meneghel Zilli, Lucas Jonys Ribeiro Silva, Josep M. Guerrero, Ricardo Quadros Machado

“…The key contribution lies in the fuzzy-based voltage restoration for the EMS, integrating SoC equalization via S-shaped functions, even during BESS, FC, or CBC maintenance. …”
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Convolutional neural network-based low light image enhancement method by J. Guo

“…The stability of local binary features under variations in illumination is the study's initial method of providing directional advice for the enhancement algorithm. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Various Methods of Preservation of Human Skin Graft by Prof. R. C. Sinka, Dr. Bipin B. Sinha

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Using R/S analysis for forecasting stock quotes with ARMA and ARIMA methods by Stupina Alena, Zinenko Anna

“…To test the hypothesis, we carried out forecasts of leading world indices stocks and currency pairs with the Hurst exponent less than or equal to 0.5 for 10 years using the ARMA and ARIMA methods and compared the results using the MAPE metric. …”
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Daily runoff forecasting using novel optimized machine learning methods by Peiman Parisouj, Changhyun Jun, Sayed M. Bateni, Essam Heggy, Shahab S. Band

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New Families of Third-Order Iterative Methods for Finding Multiple Roots by R. F. Lin, H. M. Ren, Z. Šmarda, Q. B. Wu, Y. Khan, J. L. Hu

“…The obtained methods are also compared in their performance with various other iteration methods via numerical examples, and it is observed that these have better performance than the modified Newton method, and demonstrate at least equal performance to iterative methods of the same order.…”
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Methods of reduction of control objects models containing oscillating and forcing links by A. G. Stryzhnev, A. A. Shykhau

“…Methods are based on using of quadratic equation modulus and coefficient of factorization that makes links discriminants equal or more than zero. …”
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Ascent Trajectory Optimization Using Second-Order Birkhoff Pseudospectral Methods by Xiaopeng Xue, Yujia Xie, Hui Zhou, Qinghai Gong, Dangjun Zhao

“…This paper proposes a novel convex optimization framework for two-stage launch vehicle (TSLV) ascent trajectory planning from liftoff to orbit insertion, featuring two groundbreaking advancements over existing convex optimization methodologies: (1) an innovative second-order Birkhoff pseudospectral (BPS) method is developed that reduces the number of dynamic equality constraints by 50% compared to traditional PS methods, meanwhile, an augmented variable transcription technique is used to formulate inequality constraints; therefore, the sparsity ratio of the inequality matrix is reduced to less than 1%; (2) a new iterative solution strategy initialized by a few guesses is proposed to efficiently obtain the optimal solution. …”
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Methods, hardware and software for monitoring crops condition on early stages of vegetation by I. V. Voronkov

“…The results difference equals 3-5 percent.…”
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